9. Familiar patterns

Gao Tong shook his head with a little confusion, "In fact, in terms of orientation, the location layout of this hanging coffin is indeed a meticulous 'stars hugging the moon', but in this layout, there is only one real main tomb according to common sense, and the others can be regarded as burials at most." Gao Tong picked up a small stone, and by the light of the miner's lamp, he sketched several simple figures of different sizes on the stone wall, presenting a semi-enclosed structure, and then said: "Take the Tang Dynasty as a comparison, and a number of evenly divided medium-sized tombs were found around the tomb of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

They were all humerus dignitaries of the year, and it would be considered glory to be buried on the emperor's side, but if this form of group burial is expressed by the law of feng shui, it is a variant of the layout of 'stars hugging the moon'. The location of the main tomb and other tombs is very particular, but there is certainly only one main tomb. ”

"The group burials around 'Stars Hugging the Moon' are not said to ward off evil spirits, the emperor is buried in the middle, and the tombs of the surrounding courtiers cannot be used to suppress the emperor. Although these are hanging coffins in front of you, but following the laws of feng shui and earth, it should be impossible to make such a bad pool. The only thing that doesn't make sense now is that the three hanging coffins are not divided into each other's main seats. ”

Professor Zhang kept nodding, he must have known the royal funeral customs of the Tang Dynasty, as for the group funeral structure of "stars hugging the moon", the historical materials will not be written in a high-sounding manner. Listening to Gao Tong's explanation, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief for a while, it seems that the saying of "using the tomb to suppress evil" cannot withstand scrutiny, and when I turned my head, I saw that the silent expression was finally relaxed.

Then Gao Tong and Chen Xu talked about the two forks leading to the cliff outside, which were similar to the one we came in, and no one had touched the hanging coffin outside, and the appearance and size were extremely similar to the one we opened in the morning. If you look at it from the outside from another angle, it is equivalent to the outer holes where the three hanging coffins are located leading to the front of you, and our current place plays a pivotal role of dividing into four, and there is only one way inside.

After the two of them had taken a breath and rested for five or six minutes, Gao Tong pointed to the remaining passage, "It is estimated that the real secret of these hanging coffins is hidden here." It's still early, let's go in and have a look. ”

Several people followed Gao Tong to stand up one after another, and walked into the passage with their front feet next to their back feet. After walking dozens of steps, the surroundings slowly began to become wider, two or three people in parallel did not seem crowded, and the feet were no longer potholes, the road that had been slightly curved gradually became straighter, and everyone was surprised all the way, it seems that the depth of this cave is really very good.

Following all the way forward, Chen Xu, who was walking in the front, was surprised, and I stretched my neck forward in the back to see that a real stone room was abruptly presented in front of me.

The light of several mining lamps above everyone's heads gathered together, reflecting this stone room of forty or fifty square meters, and when we looked closely, we were in an octagonal stone room with regular rules, compared with the roughness of the cliff cave when we entered, it was smooth and delicate to the point of almost perfection, and a round stone pillar with a diameter of one meter was supported in the middle, and what made me feel cold was that there was an arched passage on each of the stone walls of the same size on eight sides, and I didn't know where it led.

Gao Tong was hesitating what to do next, I approached the thick stone pillar in the middle, and glanced at it from top to bottom by the light of the miner's lamp, and then slowly went around to the back of the stone pillar, a strange pattern appeared in front of my eyes, and then when I looked closely, the pattern was carved on the stone pillar, and it was a random combination of a bunch of irregular geometric figures, and for a while my head was "buzzing" as if it was about to explode. This is the last image on the stack of photos that Li Fern showed me a few months ago.

The big head and the silence saw that my face was wrong at the same time, grabbed two steps and walked closer, followed my eyes to look over, silently and softly "ah", and then covered his mouth, his eyes were round, "How is this picture the same as last time...... That photo is the same? But...... Definitely not from here, the background is not right. ”

I forced my head to suppress the panic in my heart, my heart was about to jump out of my chest, and I subconsciously scanned the passages, could it be that these passages hide the real secret about me?

Several people leaned over when they heard the sound, Gao Tong's eyes stared for a long time without blinking, as if he remembered something, his lips moved and "hissed" slightly, and then stroked his chin and bowed his head silently, but Professor Zhang gently touched the pattern with his hand, and said thoughtfully: "The appearance does have the lines and style of the Hongshan culture period, but ...... I always felt like it was a deliberate falsification. ”

"Fake?" Silently asked. Professor Zhang shook his head slightly, "What I said may not be right, it can be regarded as a guess." The style of the pattern is a little too mature and exquisite, lacking the simple taste of the wall carvings in ancient times, to make an inappropriate analogy, just like today's antique buildings, although the appearance is almost exactly the same as the Ming and Qing dynasties, the charm revealed is not right...... Of course, this is just my intuitive idea based on experience. ”

I have been looking at the pattern on the stone pillar for half a day, and my heart has inexplicably begun to be restless, if my memory is not a big problem, this should be the third time I have seen this pattern, except for the photos that Li Fern showed me and this time in front of me, I am sure that I have seen it elsewhere, and each time it is a different occasion and background, my brain can't stop being dizzy, but I can't think of anything.

I tried my best to control the rhythm of deep breaths to dispel the confusion and irritation in my heart, and the silent concern in my eyes also gave me a little comforting warmth, but I still felt like I was about to collapse, whether it was because the pattern contained a mystery about me, or because I was too eager to know the final answer, I couldn't figure it out.

The big head sighed and pulled me, and then I looked away, my legs trembled unconsciously, and even my mind was a little dazed. The big head dragged me to sit down on the smooth stone wall on the side, silently handed me a bottle of water, and I quickly waved my hand at them, "It's okay, I'll just rest for a while." ”

The time was two o'clock in the afternoon, Gao Tong saw that my face was relaxed, let out a long breath, and then thought and said: "There are a total of eight passages in the stone chamber at the moment, you can imagine how complex the structure of this cave group is, we must not have time to explore each one today, fortunately, it is not difficult to go back and forth, maybe it will take a few more days to study slowly." ”

Professor Zhang was excited and happy, "I am sure that this is already a historical discovery. The excavation of Hongshan culture has never seen an artificial cave group of this scale, and according to the current situation, a re-evaluation of Hongshan culture will result in subversiveness. ”